- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 18:32:12 MDT
- To: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@spyglass.com>
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
I don't envision the PDA people implementing their browser that
way, no matter how strongly we attempt to tell them what to do in
the HTTP spec. More than likely they will put a "Failed to contact
server, showing old page from cache." message in the status bar and
display the page as normal. I'd guess they would willfully work
outside the bounds of the HTTP spec before they would severly
hinder their application in that manner.
The fact remains that the PDA will have received the
Cache-control: must-revalidate
header and will be able to display an appropriate warning locally.
I.e., I still think this is a sufficient mechanism in the protocol.
We can quibble about what systems should do when they disobey the
spec.
-Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 9 April 1996 01:48:05 UTC